I hate holi
as a woman I feel I have no rights to even enjoy a single festival peacefully. neither in my own home neither outside. I never ever put these kind of incidents up but till when am I expected to forgive and forget ? my mental health gets fucked up. I sleep in distres thinking what happened
Backstory - our aqua guard broke yesterday. so limited drinking water today. but at peak 11.30 am today ,we had no water so I went 200meters from my house to buy water. and in those 200 meters a whole ass gang of boys drenched me with colors and water and I dont even know them saying "bura na mano holi hai". fuck you guys. this has everything to do with bura manna. I don't want your hands ,I don't want to play with you. why the hell do you even think it's appropriate to drench a stranger in the middle of the road. Literally not a single person in the whole groups thought that's it's wrong ? can't I even go out of my own house,in my own colony to get fucking water ?
what is wrong with people. I just can't stop crying since then. it just hurts so much seeing how casually women are treated. The boys had their share of disgusting fun and will move on and I will suffer from this incident for a lifetime. never again will I want to step out of my house on such a day. why do men keep on repeating this same shit. To say how I feel about my own body now is disgusting. getting 10 pairs of hands touching your body in the name of enjoyment of festivals is nothing but cheap. and not one of them had to guts to stop them or speak against it. to every man who has ever made a girl feel unsafe ,I'm letting you know you're nothing short of disgusting. And if anyone says that it must have been a bad neighbourhood - I live in one of the most established areas of my city so that isn't even a question! men its High time you start doing better Edit - to all those saying men suffer too,i completely agree, but it is being done by men too. this post is for those disgusting men who feel holi is a free pass to abuse or harrass a person irrespective of gender. Im not playing a woman card here.Im showing u the reality ,im expressing my side of the story. some boy may also have experienced the same.Im calling out the men who do this kind of shitty behavior not the ones who have to suffer through this. so stop giving me unsolicited remarks on how I'm not the only victim and joking about something you might never understand the after effects of